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‘The False Burton Combs’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 17: Then I’ll cop you off at breakfast tomorrow morning.at cop off, v.1
‘The False Burton Combs’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 17: Then I’ll cop you off at breakfast tomorrow morning. ‘The Road Home’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 31: I ain’t offering you a dinky coupla thousand dollars; I’m offering you your pick out of one of the richest gem beds in Asia.at dinky, adj.2
‘The False Burton Combs’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 21: ‘Here’s where you stop,’ he growled, ‘and here’s where you get yours [...] the killing of a rat like you is the only business I’ve got on the moors this night.’.at get one’s (v.) under get, v.
‘Kansas City Flash’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 89: She must be coo-coo.at cuckoo, adj.
‘Kansas City Flash’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 72: He was an autograph hound.at hound, n.
‘Kansas City Flash’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 78: Mark Hull shook his head. ‘Ixnay. I like trouble.’.at ixnay, adv.
‘Kansas City Flash’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 71: You mugg, are you makin’ this up?at mug, n.1
‘Kansas City Flash’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 77: Get it off your chest before you get tapped on the conk.at tap, v.2
‘Take It and Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 96: They put Kennedy on the dramatic page [...] and what does the bunny do one night but get tight and go and review a play at the Channock Theatre. [...] He writes next day that it’s a lousy show.at bunny, n.1
‘Take It and Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 92: Do you know where there’s a chili joint around here?at chile joint (n.) under chile-, pfx
‘Take It and Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 100: I never in cripes’ world thought it would be like this.at cripes!, excl.
‘Take It and Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 107: Dish us the dirt, and I don’t care how dirty you dish it.at dish (out/up) the dirt (v.) under dirt, n.
‘Take It and Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 107: Old Nonsplit Tom Flannery, the great horse’s neck.at horse’s neck (n.) under horse, n.
‘Take It and Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 103: I’m going to hate to prosecute that onion for murder. Yes, I am, I am!at onion, n.1
‘Take It and Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 105: Well, ’f it isn’t Rube. Meet my palsywalsy, Signor Mirabelli.at palsy-walsy, n.
‘Take It and Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 95: The car. I’ll be down in a shake.at shake, n.1
‘Take It and Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 95: I’ll shoot down in two shakes and pick up the full dope.at two shakes (n.) under shake, n.1
‘Take It and Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 100: ‘He must have been gawd-awful drunk.’ [...] ‘Swizzled’ said Moriarty.at swizzled, adj.
‘Take It & Like It’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 107: Precious nerts to you, you big turnip.at turnip, n.
‘Leg Man’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 228: Of all the dumbhead plays you’ve made, that’s the worst.at dumbhead (n.) under dumb, adj.1
‘Leg Man’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 216: You seem to think a middle-aged old gander is going to get a sweet, innocent girl to fall for just your own sweet self. Bunk!at gander, n.1
‘Leg Man’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 126: All right, get a load of this: You’re being stood up.at get a load of (v.) under load, n.
‘Leg Man’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 212: I’m going to throw a lot of monkey wrenches in that machinery.at throw a (monkey) wrench into (the machinery) (v.) under monkey, n.
‘Leg Man’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 205: You beat him to it by spiking her guns.at spike, v.1
‘Its so Peaceful in the Country’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 322: I see I’ve got a little off base.at off base (adj.) under base, n.2
‘The Turkey Buzzard Blues’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 309: Waiting for eight bells. At eight, we’re going to nail your father’s murderer.at bell, n.1
‘Its so Peaceful in the Country’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 323: She asks me, will I really come back, and I tell her I cross my heart for a C note I will come back on the hour.at C-note, n.
‘It’s so Peaceful in the Country’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 324: I’m too canned up to think good.at canned, adj.
‘Its so Peaceful in the Country’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 321: I dummy up. My plea is working on her.at dummy up, v.
‘The Turkey Buzzard Blues’ in Ruhm Hard-Boiled Detective (1977) 271: If you’re an alcohol-tax-man sombuddy’s in fer some hell-raisin’.at hell-raising (n.) under hell, n.
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